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Mayor. — We’re going to ask advice from the WPA administrator, and somehow we’re going to build that new junior high school we’ve needed for years. . . .
Music. — Bridge . . . indefinite.
WPA Administrator. — Gentlemen, the WPA is pleased to approve your project for the construction of a new junior high school as well as the project for paving 12 blocks on Main Street.
Selectman. — How much is it gonna cost ?
WPA Administrator. — The labor cost will run around $20,000.
Second Selectman. — Why, my sold alive, we haven’t got that much in the city treasury.
WPA Administrator. — I said that was the labor cost. The government pays that. The cost to the city for the new school will represent building supplies.
Voices. — {Ad libs)
Selectman. — You mean we get a new junior high school for only $6,000?
WPA Administrator. — That’s right.
Second Selectman. — Well, it don’t seem possible.
WPA Administrator. — Your street paving project will utilize 35 more of your unemployed and will cost approximately $27,000 in labor, but the cost to the city will be only $5,000 for supplies and material.
Selectman. — Jehosophat . . . and that street’s needed paving for 10 years. . . .
Second Selectman. — Yeah, but look here, young feller, you can’t put shirtmakers and that music teacher and these stenographers and other women to work paving streets.
WPA Administrator. — That’s right, so we suggest a sewing project which will absorb most of them.
Selectman. — What’ll you do with the stuff they sew?
WPA Administrator. — Distribute it to the people on relief, to the very old and the very young.
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